Jane Wyman remembered

Jane Wyman to be honored with star in Palm Springs

2007: Actress Jane Wyman ("Johnny Belinda," "Falcon Crest") dies in her sleep from natural causes at the age of 90 in Rancho Mirage, California. Wyman was also the first wife of Ronald Reagan. They married in 1940 and divorced on June 28, 1948, before Reagan ran for public office.

Palm Springs -

Oscar-winning actress and former Coachella Valley resident Jane Wyman will posthumously receive a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on Sunday, it was announced Monday.

Wyman, who died in Rancho Mirage in 2007 at age 90, won an Academy Awardfor her lead role in ``Johnny Belinda'' in 1949 and was nominated three moretimes.

Her career lasted six decades, bookended by an unaccredited appearancein the 1932 musical comedy ``The Kid from Spain'' and a 1993 episode of thetelevision series ``Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.''

She appeared in nearly 90 films on the big screen. Her small screencredits included starring in more than 200 episodes of the nighttime soap``Falcon Crest'' in the 1980s and, early in her career, doing 49 installmentsof ``Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre.''

The actress was married to Ronald Reagan from 1940 to 1948, and they hadtwo children together.

She initially worked as a chorus girl and then got small parts, whichhelped support her family during the Great Depression.

She moved to Palm Springs, then Rancho Mirage, and is buried inCathedral City.

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